... This paper analyzes the actors in the climate change arena and their influence in directing Mexico toward policies that decrease greenhouse gas emissions, such as the carbon tax and climate change law. The network analysis of the agreement of these laws and public policies in Mexico is a lesson for any country that is in the process of designing and adopting environmental laws. The research is per ...

... In this paper, the problem of sustainable closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) design under multi-uncertainties is studied. To identify an efficient way to enhance environmental and operational benefits of CLSC, we use “Big Data" and propose data-driven approaches to generating robust CLSC designs that mitigate uncertainty and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions burdens. More specifically, in addressing mul ...

... Methane (CH4) is widely present in groundwater. Dissolved CH4 in groundwater is less understood when compared with that in wetlands. In this study, the concentrations and origin of dissolved CH4 in groundwater were investigated and the potential importance of groundwater CH4 emissions in arid and semi-arid regions of Inner Mongolia was discussed. Groundwater was extracted from domestic wells using ...

... This article addresses the budgetary, economic, distributional and environmental impact of increasing the VAT on electricity in Portugal. The analysis is carried out in the context of a new multi-sector, multi-household, dynamic general equilibrium model. Simulation results suggest that a permanent increase from 6% to 23% improves the public budget and, albeit marginally, CO2 emissions, but it lea ...

... Most agricultural N₂O emissions are a consequence of microbial transformations of nitrogen (N) fertilizer, and mitigating increases in N₂O emission will depend on identifying microbial sources and variables influencing their activities. Here, using controlled microcosm and field studies, we found that synthetic N addition in any tested amount stimulated the production of N₂O from ammonia‐oxidizing ...

... Iran should pay special attention to its excessive consumption of energy and air pollution due to the limited availability of water resources. This study explores the effects of the consumption of energy and water resources on air pollution in Iran from 1971 to 2014. It utilizes the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag approach to establish a robust relationship between the variables which sh ...

... This study takes environmental policy stringency and economic activity as the controlling variables and forecasts the CO₂ emissions in China up to 2022. In doing so, an application of corrected grey model with convolution is used over the annual time series data between 1990 and 2012. The simulation results show that (1) between 2012 and 2022, CO₂ emissions in China is expected to increase at an a ...

... The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate different burden sharing rules with respect to abatement of carbon emissions. We evaluate seven different rules both in terms of their redistributive impact and by the extent to which they realize the aim of optimal abatement. We show that the Lindahl solution, where the burden sharing rule of carbon abatement is determined by each region’s willingness ...

... This study investigates the possibly changing relationship between non-fossil fuel energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydro, nuclear, solar, and wind) and CO₂ emissions over the temporal period 2000 to 2013. The results from two-way fixed effects longitudinal models demonstrate that the carbon elasticities of these energy sources change over time but not symmetrically. Wind’s association with CO ...

... China is currently at a crossroads with an aging population and steadily decreasing economic growth rates. In this context, China’s demographic policy may impact environmental quality through changes in energy usage and the demographic influences on economic development. Using panel data from 29 Chinese provinces for the period between 1995 and 2012, this study explores the relationship between th ...

... China has the richest hydropower resources in the world. Yunnan's exploitable hydropower resources rank third in China, second only to Tibet and Sichuan Province. Yunnan has experienced soaring growth in installed hydropower capacity in the past several decades. The fast development of hydropower makes the province one of the main producers and exporters of hydroelectricity. However, with inconsis ...

... This study examines whether the publicly provided information performs the role of a procedural policy expediting the adoption of a more coercive and substantive regulation by heightening public awareness and political legitimacy. Under the assumption this role of procedural policy may be critical, especially for the policy with distributed benefits and concentrated costs such as the renewable ene ...

... This paper presents a theoretical argument that low carbon strivings – personal goals to reduce carbon footprint in the household – can predict a wide range of diverse behaviours to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and reports four studies to validate Low Carbon Readiness Index (LCRI), a short, three-item measure of low carbon strivings. It is a simple and easy-to-use indicator of the general publ ...

... The economic importance of goat production has been increased during the last decades all over the world, predominantly in countries that are routinely exposed to harsh environment. Goats have numerous advantages that enable them to maintain their production under extreme climate conditions. Principally, goats have higher capacity than other farm raised ruminants to effectively convert some feed s ...

... China's six high-energy intensive industries use more energy than any other industrial sectors, consuming almost 90% of manufacturing energy and more than 50% of national energy and contributing over 50% of national energy-related CO2 emissions. Thus, this study is motivated to identify the drivers of energy-related CO2 emissions change of high-energy intensive industries in China based on the Log ...

... Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have become a rising concern in China. Few studies have considered spatial correlation and agglomeration effect of CO2 emissions for adjacent regions and provinces. This paper employs Geographical Weighted Regression (GWR) model to examine the impact of urbanization, industrial structure and energy intensity on CO2 emissions and reveals the spatial correlation in dif ...

... Energetic, environmental and economic (3E) performances are major effective criteria that one needs to consider when designing and optimizing a desalination plant. In order to optimize all the three variables, it is important to determine an optimal system configuration and operation strategy at early design stages. Therefore, 3E analyses and multi-objective optimization of desalination systems ar ...

... Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the main sources of global warming, rising sea levels, and frequent outbreaks of extreme weather. China is now one of the largest energy consumer and CO2 emitters in the world. As one of China's economic centers, Shanghai city has a perfect industrial system with large industrial scale. The industrial sector is an energy– and emission–intensive industry, which contri ...

... The electricity sector in Malaysia is dominated by fossil fuels. This has immensely increased the amount of CO2 emissions and other pollutants. The objective of this paper is to investigate the potential for inter-fuel substitution between the four major fuels of coal, gas, oil, and hydropower that are currently being used in the generation of electricity in Malaysia. Using a translog production f ...

... This paper proposes energy scenarios to 2050 for the Province of Quebec under GHG emission reduction constraints with and without new hydrocarbon exploitation. The main objective is to measure the impact of new hydrocarbon projects on achieving stringent GHG reduction objectives (upto −80%). Our analysis relies on the North American TIMES Energy Model (NATEM), which belongs to the MARKAL/TIMES fam ...